Jessica Fischer

Agency

The Entrepreneurial Self in Narratives of Transformation: Debuting in the Literary Field at the Dawn of the Twenty-First-Century

Erscheinungsdatum: 12.10.2020, 212 Seiten ISBN: 978-3-8260-7036-5
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Autor*innen:Jessica Fischer

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Beschreibung

Which forms of agency does literature offer to the reader in the twenty-first century? This study investigates migrant lives in contemporary fiction published by young British Asian writers. Examining the protagonists’ ideas of ›success‹ in becoming a full member of their society, Jessica Fischer carves out the naturalised model of homo economicus in these texts and in contemporary fiction more generally. She draws attention to the enterprising self as the preferred subject in today’s hegemonic discourses and postulates a new conceptualisation of ›agency‹. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to narratives of transformation. Moreover, it is an urgently needed combination of cultural and postcolonial studies that tackles ethical questions concerning the normative construction of the subject in identity politics.

The author:
Jessica Fischer is a lecturer and researcher in Literary and Cultural Studies. She studied at the University of Freiburg, the Freie Universität Berlin, and the University College London. At Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, she wrote her PhD thesis AGENCY.

Zusätzliche Information

Gewicht0,339 kg
Größe15.5 × 23.5 cm (B × H)
Seiten212
Erscheinungsdatum12.10.2020
ISBN978-3-8260-7036-5   //   9783826070365
EinbandartKartoniert
SpracheEnglisch
VerlagKönigshausen & Neumann
Verlags-Code05/5108091

Autor*innen

Fischer, Jessica

Jessica Fischer is a lecturer and researcher in Literary and Cultural Studies. She studied at the University of Freiburg, the Freie Universität Berlin, and the University College London. At Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, she wrote her PhD thesis AGENCY.